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in this budget environment, we can afford things like that. we need to be more creative. joint strike fighters and other programs -- another program that suffers from the same challenge, how can we talk about shorter range in a world where they are pushing us further and further out? i think the same point comes in their. -- there. that ishe only jet built from the ground up to be survivable in a challenging environment. that is a tremendous capability. we have not even started to figure out what we can do with that capability. there are phases to any conflict. the early phases -- eventually, you can get in there. you have to think of it across the spectrum. i think your point is very good. it is not lost on us. we have to make sure the platforms we have today can work tomorrow. --are trying to predict protect those investments in our budget. briefly, last summer, we conducted a review and we have the opportunity to discuss that with you. this winter, it was a shadow 2015 budget/qdr. we had to cut further than sequester levels and the budget so that you could free up mone
in this budget environment, we can afford things like that. we need to be more creative. joint strike fighters and other programs -- another program that suffers from the same challenge, how can we talk about shorter range in a world where they are pushing us further and further out? i think the same point comes in their. -- there. that ishe only jet built from the ground up to be survivable in a challenging environment. that is a tremendous capability. we have not even started to figure out...
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legal and regulatory reforms improved the business environment and already resulted in more than $1.5 billion investment in the telecom industry alone. in 2001, there was one mobile phone company with 20,000 subscribers. today there are four telecom companies with more than 16 million telephone subscribers. some offering 3g services. telecommunications networks reached 90% of the afghan population. in 2002 only 6% of afghans had access to reliable electricity. today over 30% of the population has such access. there's also been, as has been noted, considerable progress regarding democracy, governance and press freedom. constitutional democracy is steadily taken root. afghanistan constitution is arguably the most progressive in south and central asia. over the past 12 years afghanistan has had two presidential and parliamentary elections and two elections for provincial councils. 27% of the seats in parliament, one governor, three cabinet members and 120 judicial positions are currently held by women. in 2001 there was one state radio television station. today there are over 75 televisi
legal and regulatory reforms improved the business environment and already resulted in more than $1.5 billion investment in the telecom industry alone. in 2001, there was one mobile phone company with 20,000 subscribers. today there are four telecom companies with more than 16 million telephone subscribers. some offering 3g services. telecommunications networks reached 90% of the afghan population. in 2002 only 6% of afghans had access to reliable electricity. today over 30% of the population...
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it created a environment where its beneficial to the agency to distort the costs. let's get back to what we should do. not people trying to sneak in rules. not people trying to sneak in different cost benefit analysis. let's have conversation again between the american people and the government that they are in charge of. with that i yield back. the chair: the gentlelady from texas who has 1 1/4 minutes remaining. ms. jackson lee: i thank you very much. i thank the gentleman for his analysis, but let me offer to him that first of all this particular legislation will be subject to a veto threat because as the president has noted there is already a robust analytical and procedural requirement. i agree there should be that. we already have it. and the coalition for sensible safeguards has indicated the jackson lee amendment is a commonsense amendment that makes clear that regulations whose benefits the public health safety exceed the cost of regulated industries are good public investments. this amendment is a necessary amendment. the jackson lee amendment says if it'
it created a environment where its beneficial to the agency to distort the costs. let's get back to what we should do. not people trying to sneak in rules. not people trying to sneak in different cost benefit analysis. let's have conversation again between the american people and the government that they are in charge of. with that i yield back. the chair: the gentlelady from texas who has 1 1/4 minutes remaining. ms. jackson lee: i thank you very much. i thank the gentleman for his analysis,...
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[video clip] >> be issued a new school wellness guideline to build healthier learning environments for our kids. part of this effort will be eliminating advertisements for unhealthy food and beverages in our schools. thatnk we can all agree our classroom should be healthy places where kids are not bombarded with ads for junk food. food marketing guidelines are tot of the larger effort inspire companies to think about how they campaign for food to kids. kids watch thousands of food advertisements every year. 86% of these ads are for products loaded with sugar and salt. our kids see an average of just one ad a week for healthy products like water, fruits and vegetables. just one. begun the we have first ever white house summit on food advertising to children, asking businesses to stop marketing unhealthy foods to kids and do more to get kids excited about healthy foods. should applynciple to our schools. about theant to talk "let's move" campaign. the federal government's efforts to combat childhood obesity. you can see the numbers on your screen. do you think this is a good idea? isn't
[video clip] >> be issued a new school wellness guideline to build healthier learning environments for our kids. part of this effort will be eliminating advertisements for unhealthy food and beverages in our schools. thatnk we can all agree our classroom should be healthy places where kids are not bombarded with ads for junk food. food marketing guidelines are tot of the larger effort inspire companies to think about how they campaign for food to kids. kids watch thousands of food...
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and the only difference is, that i grew up in an environment that was a little bit more forgiving. so when i made a mistake, the consequences were not as severe. >> reporter: teens from chicago saw themselves in the president as well. >> to my surprise, he was just like me. growing up without a father. and sometimes not too concerned with school. >> reporter: the event was to launch, my brother's keeper, a mentoring program for at-risk youth. >> part of our message in this initiative is, no excuses. it'll take courage, but you have to tune out the nay sayers who say the deck is stacked against you. you might as well just give up. or settle into the stereo type. >> reporter: this is the third time the president met with this group of teens from chicago. last time was on father's day and you can expect he will meet with them again. this is clearly a group the president established a real personal connection with. jonathan karl, abc news, the us white house. >>> jason collins said what he did last night over what he did after his team won, one of those cool treats. following the game
and the only difference is, that i grew up in an environment that was a little bit more forgiving. so when i made a mistake, the consequences were not as severe. >> reporter: teens from chicago saw themselves in the president as well. >> to my surprise, he was just like me. growing up without a father. and sometimes not too concerned with school. >> reporter: the event was to launch, my brother's keeper, a mentoring program for at-risk youth. >> part of our message in...
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driven to preserve the environment, csx moves a ton of freight nearly 450 miles on one gallon of fuel. what a day. can't wait til tomorrow. ♪ >>> good morning. it's 8:00 on the east coast, 5:00 a.m. on the west coast. oh, the rain! there's so much rain coming to l.a. take a live look at new york city, why don't you? back on set, we have eugene robinson, here in new york, john hywellman, thomas robertis, and this washington, sam stein. >>> the tea party movement. its leaders are trying to steer the message into the future with a renewed tone. senator rand paul is trying to keep the movement from being side tracked with an apparent reference to recent remarks by rocker ted nugent about president obama. >> we have to reach out to more people, not just those of us here. it has to be a bigger party, and it has to be a bigger movement. there are times -- and i don't think it is our movement -- but there are times when people are using language that shouldn't be used, and i recently criticized someone for using some of that language, and i'm not going to bring it up. but i will say we can
driven to preserve the environment, csx moves a ton of freight nearly 450 miles on one gallon of fuel. what a day. can't wait til tomorrow. ♪ >>> good morning. it's 8:00 on the east coast, 5:00 a.m. on the west coast. oh, the rain! there's so much rain coming to l.a. take a live look at new york city, why don't you? back on set, we have eugene robinson, here in new york, john hywellman, thomas robertis, and this washington, sam stein. >>> the tea party movement. its leaders...